Patty Wetterling, a mother, victim-parent, and tireless victim advocate, has created waves of heart-based social change. Her activism slowly grew out of the tragedy of her son Jacob’s abduction on October 22, 1989. The search for Jacob lasted nearly 27 years along with the families, and so many others, firm hope tha

t Jacob was alive. That reality shifted when Jacobs remains were identified. On September, 6, 2016, Danny Heinrich plead guilty to a child pornography charge while also admitting, with horrifying detail, how he had kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered Jacob. He buried Jacob’s body in Paynesville, MN which is near the same small town where he had kidnapped and sexually assaulted another boy, Jared Scheierl. While not admitting to more crimes, there were other boys about the same age, about the same time, approached and assaulted in a similar way. Read entire piece

Cordelia is a nationally known speaker & consultant with a wide variety of organizations nationwide.

Sensibilities Prevention Servicesis the Minnesota based training and consultation business. Andersons' career has been dedicated to prevention of various forms of harm including: sexual violence, child sexual abuse and exploitation, countering normalization of sexual harm, bullying/cyber-bullying, , child abuse and interpersonal violence, compassion fatigue and the harmful impact of pornography.

Prevention requires a clear vision of what we're working for not only what we're working against and a commitment to social change. Cordelia's work also involves:

·strategies for social change to create a healthy society so that all children, youth and adults are treated with dignity, respect and honor and are able to live their lives free from abuse or exploitation.